The direct harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation (UVR) on benthic and planktonic organisms have been well studied in aquatic systems. Less clear, however, is how UVR might affect aquatic communities through its effects on trophic interactions. The focus of this study was twofold: first, to examine the direct effect of UVR on benthic invertebrates and epilithon, the rock-dwelling matrix of al...

This paper introduces a new employee option plan for lowand mid-level employees. The option plan is a possibility for the employee to exercise an accrual account at any time before maturity contingent on the stock price being above a strike level. The option is American in nature and is a combination of an accrual account and a digital option with a strike price. The optimal stopping problem as...

The serotonin molecule has some remarkable properties. It is synthesized by two different genes at two different sites, and, surprisingly, plays antagonistic functions on bone mass accrual at these two sites. When produced peripherally, serotonin acts as a hormone to inhibit bone formation. In contrast, when produced in the brain, serotonin acts as a neurotransmitter to exert a positive and dom...

Argumentation frameworks have proven to be a successful approach to formalizing commonsense reasoning. Recently, some argumentation frameworks have been extended to deal with possibilistic uncertainty, notably Possibilistic Defeasible Logic Programming (P-DeLP). At the same time, modelling argument accrual has gained attention from the argumentation community. Even though some preliminary forma...

Because the effects of religion or religiosity on physical activity (PA) and sedentary activity (SA) are unknown, weekend accrual of PA and SA was measured among Jewish adolescents (N = 437) attending religious day schools in two large cities in the western United States. Participants completed the Self-Administered Physical Activity Checklist and demographic and religious questionnaire items. ...

This paper argues that accrual should be modelled in terms of reasoning about the application of preferences to sets of arguments, and shows how such reasoning can be formalised within metalevel argumentation frameworks. These frameworks adopt the same machinery and level of abstraction as Dung’s argumentation framework. We thus provide a dialectical argumentation semantics that integrates accr...

through-plane concomitant field phase accrual, for a phantom (squares no correction, triangles corrected) and human brain (circles no correction, diamonds corrected). Dephasing from concomitant gradient fields leads to error in ADC that increases with distance from isocenter (zS = 10cm-superior; zS = 0cm-inferior). FIG 1. Diffusion gradient timing for StejskalTanner (ST; insensitive to concomit...

This research aims to test the influence of Human Resources Competency, Leadership Commitment, Information Technology Support, Internal Control over Financial Reporting on Quality Statements Ministries and Non-Ministries Government Indonesia, with intervening variables Implementation Accrual-based Accounting Standards (Empirical Studies Indonesia). The population in this study was Fifty-Three w...

The aim of the paper is to analyse association between use accrual-based and real earnings management practices before company goes public decision institutional investors on buying or refraining from shares offered in initial offering (IPO). sample consists 258 Polish new stock companies over period 2005-2020. We find that such refrain massive pre-IPO period: both accrual-based. However, we ev...